In honor of its 150th anniversary, The Nation, which published its first issue on July 1, 1865, is publishing a celebratory issue that features articles by James Baldwin, Barbara Ehrenreich, Toni Morrison, Howard Zinn, among others, and is available as a free PDF download.
Prospect magazine asked its readers to name their favorite “world thinkers,” and Thomas Picetty, the French economist and the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is at the top of the list.
Charlie Hebdo has won PEN America’s Freedom of Expression Courage Award.
The New York Times’s T Magazine blog offers a peek into the workspaces of seven celebrated authors, including Rachel Kushner, Paul Muldoon, Tom McCarthy, Chinelo Okparanta, and Adam Thirlwell. Kushner writes: "The discontinuity—that it is pretty and calm in here—is not entirely lost on me. And anyhow, whether reading one or trying to compose one, novels are terrain for discontinuities, sometimes violent ones."
“We smoked weed and drank Red Stripe and sometimes inhaled poppers, which would lend you huge brief bursts of euphoric energy and then foreclose, leaving you in a puddle.” At the NYRB Blog, Luc Sante writes about “Arleen,” a song by the Jamaican musician General Echo, and recalls nights he spent at Isaiah’s, “a dance club that materialized every Thursday night in a fourth-floor loft on Broadway between Bleecker and Bond.”
